Uncommon Textual References
Turf- firewood
A mash for hens-chicken food was typically made up of grain and nutrients and
mashed together
"pictures"-movies at this time were referred to as "pictures",
or moving pictures
soda bread-a type of Irish bread made without yeast
Wild Woodbines/fags-cigarettes
Notionate-speculative, thoughtful
Gramophone-a record player, phonograph
"anointed"-Anointing of the Sick. In Catholicism, when one is sick
and there's a good chance he or she will die, a priest performs the sacrament
of the anointing of the sick, in which one is anointed with oil and all his
or her sins are forgiven if he or she repents.
Syndicalist-in Spain, an anarchist-socialist group who believed in direct democracy
Cod-liver oil-an oil obtained from the liver of the codfish, and used extensively
in medicine as a means of supplying the body with fat in cases of malnutrition.
Whin-bush-a very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow
flowers; common throughout western Europe
Indian meal-corn meal
Toff-a member of the upper classes, especially one who is elegantly dressed
